Tweeps I follow in my job search

Sorry for the time off folks.  My contract gig, photo shoots, taxes and a non-stop round of swim meets and home improvement projects have kept me out of the house.   If you recall, last time I looked at some of the more traditional sites that you ought to be visiting in your job search.

I am a believer in a holistic approach and so since I went with traditional last week, let me get into Twitter this week.  I have been looking high and low for the best folks to follow and that I can network with, but there are a few folks that are amazing for job hunting.  I keep each of these in a special column for job hunting on tweet deck so that I dont miss listings or wisdom.

As I get into these, please note that you have definetly seen some of these before and they are well worth re-mentioning.  They are my selections and as such your mileage can and ought to differ.  If you have someone that you think older, experienced jog hunters like me ought to be following, DM me @socialmediawonk or comment this story.  I will be delighted to add them.

I have also include a follow list at the end of this article.  I am trying an experiment to see if this format helps you add these folks to your own follow list.  Let me know how it works

KPMG Recruiters

I know this seems silly given that I was riffed from here and returned as a contractor, but Mike Madura and the rest of the KPMG midwest recruiters have been amazing, especially in pushing social media as a method of job hunting.  I like them and since I still in large part consider KPMG as still “my company” here are my guys:

• Mike Madura (@mikemadura) – Manager/Lead Midwest Advisory Recruiting at KPMG, LLP – Closet Theoretical Physicist/Cosmologist and all around nice guy.  Its the worst irony that I met Mike on the way out of KPMG and not on the way in.  He is insightful and forward thinking and to me, represents the best of the Advisory practice at KPMG.
• @KPMGAdvisory – KPMG’s IT Advisory, Business Performance Services, Forensics, Financial Risk Managment, Internal Audit, Transaction Services twitter account.  This is monitored by Mike and others out of Chicago.  But the gang tweets relevant advice and is a great example of how social media and real business can get along very very well.
• Sarah Peacey (@recruitingtruth ) – KPMG Advisory Recruiter
• Rithesh Nair(@rithesh) – KPMG Research Recruiter
• Dave Gombka (@dg)  –  KPMG Advisory Research Recruiter
• Janet Haas (@recruiterchic) –  KPMG Transaction Services Recruiter
• Ryan Anania (@duediligenceTS) – KPMG Transaction Services Recruiter
• KPMG LLP (@KPMG) – pushing out KPMG news and information
• KPMG Careers (@KPMGUSCareers) – US career postings

Other Job Search Twitter Geniuses I follow

Okay, so no particular order on this.  These are guys that I follow that have helped and inspired me.  Many of them have no idea who I am, but am proud to say that I like and admire each of them on this list.  I am certainly open to hearing and visiting your favorites.  Its a tough world out there and we all need the best we can find to get that next great gig that makes us happy to go to work each and every day.

• Patricia “Trish” McFarlane (@Trish_HR) – Beyond being a Mom, funny as hell and a good egg, Trish is the Director of Human Resources at Fleishman-Hillard and knows a thing or two about job hunting and HR in this age of social media.  A very, very worthy follow.
• Dan Schawbel (@danschawbel) – Dan is all about personal branding. He’s the author of Me 2.0 and he was one of my first follows post KPMG.  I credit him with giving me new thoughts and ideas on how to really take job hunting to the max.
• Laurie Ruettimann (@lruettimann) I love this girl  with her irreverant view of HR and social media.  Great follow.
• Charlie O’Donnell (@ceonyc) – Charlie is the CEO of Path101 a career discovery startup based in NYC.
• Alison Doyle (@alisondoyle) – Alison has some great ideas about online job search. And she wrote the book, literally:  Internet Your Way To a New Job.
• Tim Ferriss (@tferriss) – Tim wrote The 4-Hour Workweek.  It sits on my bookshelf write next to a couple books on GTD.  I just hope its possible.
• Ben Yoskovitz (@byosko) – The CEO of Standout Jobs, Ben works to improve the user experience of corporate recruiting sites to make it easier for companies to communicate their recruiting message.
• Ben Casnocha (@bencasnocha) -  He started his own company at age 14 and then wrote My Start-Up Life. Whether you want to be an entrepreneur or not, Ben is a college kid who has learned something in college.  That makes one of us.
• Susan Joyce (@jobhuntorg) – Susan has built one of the most trusted job search resources on the Internet at Job-Hunt.org.
• Jason Buss (@jjbuss) – Jason is the VP, Talent Acquisition & Diversity at Ameriprise Financial.  Want some insight on corporate recruiting?  Follow Jason.
• Joel Cheesman (@cheezhead) – Joel blogs and follows the world of online recruiting.
• Michael Arrington (@techcrunch) – Some people love the idea of working at a startup and I am one.  Easy money on the IPO and all that.  Follow TechCrunch for a much need rationality check.
• Andy Beal (@andybeal) – Andy writes about online reputation management and along with personal branding is absolutely critical in today’s world.
• Jason Alba (@jasonalba) – CEO of JibberJobber, a site that managed your job search.  He also wrote I’m on LinkedIn–Now What??? and I’m on Facebook–Now What???.
• Career Crossroad. @careercrossroad. These guys are the tips and tricks help line with things you can put to use right away.
• Job Angels (@jobangels) These guys are helping one person find one job at a time – You can twitter #jobangels to get them also.  Its kind of a neat concept.

Follow List

So a new experiment here.  I am providing a list of the folks I talked about in this article to make it easier to follow them.  Let me know if you like the format and what I can do to improve it for future articles.

@mikemadura

@KPMGAdvisory

@recruitingtruth

@rithesh

@dg

@recruiterchic

@duediligenceTS

@KPMG

@KPMGUSCareers

@Trish_HR

@danschawbel

@lruettimann

@ceonyc

@alisondoyle

@tferriss

@byosko

@bencasnocha

@jobhuntorg

@jjbuss

@cheezhead

@techcrunch

@andybeal

@jasonalba

@careercrossroad

@jobangels